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WRAPPER 0R ENVBLOPE. N0. 519,158. .Patented May 1,1894.

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' -SPEGIFIOATIO forming part of Lettersl :Patent No. 519,158, dated May 1, 1894.

Applicationled December 1 ZJ18`9`3. -`SierialNo.493,508. (No model.)

To 'all whom it may concern,.-

Be ,it known that I, PERQY 'JOHN OGLE, al subjectof the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at llishopsgate Street with# in, in the cityA of London, England, have invented certain Improvements inWrappers or Envelopes for lnclo'sing Periodicals or the Like, of which the following is a specification. My invention has for its object to provide a Wrapper more especially intended for inclosing periodicals or the like which it is desired shall be rolled for transmission through the post or otherwise. It has. hitherto b een the practice to roll' the periodical or the like (which I will refer to as the inclosure) into a cylindrical form and encircle it by the wrap# per which is then secured by gum at its edge. The tendency of the inclosure being to unroll itself the wrapper and inclosure are securely held together but great difficulty is experienced in removing the wrapper, as owing to'the tightness with which the wrapper embraces the roll and owing to thecylindrical Shape thereof if it be attempted to tear the wrapper from endV to end thereof the two lines off-fracture which are made at the commencement in such an attempt converge and meet and the result is that only'acomparatively small ywedge shaped pieceof the Wrapper is removed. These lines which so converge I will call the lines of irregular fracture.` The attempt to remove the ordinary wrapper moreover frequently results in the tearing of the in closure.

AThe object of my inventionA isto overcome these diiiiculti'es and consists in perforating or penetrating or locally weaker Ing that part of .1. 5, thewrapper `whichl comes outermost when it is rolled around its inclosure with preferably two lines of cuts,slit's, slots or their equivalents (I will refer to them as slits) so arranged that the strip between them canbe `readily'removed by tearing from end to end of the wrapper.` The slits are -so disposed relatively to each other that the aforesaid lines of irregular fracture which occur after `the ends of the respective `slits are reached in tearing \wil1 run into the next of the slits and so on throughout the length of the series of slits.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings 'represent a wrapper provided with lines of a slits according to my invention. The slits a of eachline are shown at the angles and disposition relatively to each other that I find best in practice. By the dotted lines at b in Fig. l I have indicated the lines;0f irregular fracture tending in each case inward when the Wrapper is wound round the roll which it incloses and the strip is torn away. The arrow represents the direction in, which the strip is to be torn. It will be seen that when the end of each slit is reached the severance 'is in the said lines of irregular fracture until they run into the next slits and so on throughout the length of the strip the disposition of the slits constantly counteracting the inward tendency ofthe lines of irregular fracture.

Fig. 2 shows an inclosure with a wrapper around it and the strip in course of being torn off.

When the wrapper is around a cylinder or roll the tendency of the lines of irregular fracture is always inward. If it be desired to provide a wrapper which will also be suitable for flat packages or folded articlesl may duplicate the slits of each series as shown in Fig. 3 one member (a) pointing outward and the other (a2) inward as with a liat wrapper the lines of irregular fracture may tend to take eitheran inward or an outward course.

'The slits a counteract the inward tendency of the lines of irregular fracture while the slits'o.2 counteract the outward tendency ofthe lines of irregular fracture. I have shown in each case at the end from which the severance is to be commenced a tab d made by' the two slits at d2 d2 by which the severance can be properly started. As it is generally not allowable to place advertisements outside postal envelopes or wrappers and in separating the strip the back thereof is exposed. Imay utilize the back of this strip' to print advertisements upon.

l-Iaving now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is t'o be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is A wrapper or envelope provided with two l n lines of slits, forming a, tearing strip, the n- .name to this specification in the presented.

dividual slits of each line being disposed at two subscribing witnesses. such angles to the lines that the line of frac- VPERGY J. @GLF ture/is prevented from deviating vfrom its Witnesses:

5 proper course by succeeding slits, substan- WM. JOHN WEEKS,

ltially as set forth. H. D. I-IOSKINS,

In testimony whereof I have signed my Both of 31 Lombard Street, London. 

